Dear Readers, When I set out to write this book, I had no idea that Andy would take over the story. I wanted to include an autistic child as an important character, because I had a brother, who although...

To many ordinary Downriver Detroit, Monroe, Toledo, and across the Detroit River in Canada residents, Prohibition didn't mean the Purple Gang and criminal activity. Many Downriver residents needed bootlegging...

Pig Tales is a look into the secret lives of pigs with pig poems, songs, and stories.

Molly visits her Grandma Sarah and discovers Mason Jar doll Mathilda, and how Grandma Sarah ironed money during something called the Depression.

Emma, the Christmas Trree Ship, and Captain Santa is the first book in the Hello History! series for children. Emma's father is lost on Lake Michigan and she asks Captain Santa, the skipper of the Christmas...

Ghosts have a way of making their sometimes undignifed, always supernatural appearances in history from ancent Athens to Napoleon Bonaparte to William Stead on the Titanic. Here are some of their eerie...

Umbrella Tales tells the up close and personal stories of umbrellas.  Umbrellas have historical roots in ancient cultures and played roles in the lives of important historical figures.  They are also...

Teddy Bears have fascinating stories to tell if we just listen to them or read about them. They also make good coloring books and plays, like the bears in this book.

Liza and her brother William are determined to gain their freedom, despite a cruel cheating owner and a difficult trip over the Underground Railroad.

Jeb is happy with his brother Tim and Ma and Pa and their life on the homestead farm. He enjoys his pet pig Pinky and his dog Moses and he even likes going to school until he discovers that Miss Snider,...

Since her mother died, Sara wants to be with her father and help him with his archaeological digs more than anything else in the world. Her father wants her to stay home with her aunt and be safe. Sara...

Mary Walker and her parents and brother Jacob are moving into a lighthouse in New York Harbor. Mary's mother Katie isn't happy living in the light house, but Mary and her brother Jacob think living there...

Freddy and Francine try to help their grandmother Godfroy grow up.  Will they succeed?

Edited by Harvey Stanbrough. Body-Smith 401 and twenty other stories is dedicated to the memory of Ray Bradbury, who passed from among us on June 5, 2012, after having taught many of us a simple truth:...